What Randolph Bourne thinks about energy
American essayist (1886 to 1918); author of War and the Intellectuals.
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1 dated position, c. 1917–1918, in their own words. Our reading of what Randolph Bourne has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingIn war every government, democratic or autocratic, crushes whatever deflects energy from victory
Their wordsWar determines its own end—victory, and government crushes out automatically all forces that deflect, or threaten to deflect, energy from the path of organization to that end. All governments will act in this way, the most democratic as well as the most autocratic.
↗Untimely Papers (essays of 1917-1918, published 1919)gutenberg.org All 21 from this book